Media and Aggression
Media Effects: Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script theory and susceptibility approaches such as hostile attribution bias can help understand and explain this evidence.
Rosenhan: being sane in insane places
This haunting film provides a brilliant summary of one of the most infamous experiments ever conducted in psychology, looking at its origins, methods, quite extraordinary findings and its lasting impact on psychiatry.
Attachment and Child Development
Attachment: Three short films looking at different aspects of attachment and child development: Bowlby: Attachment and Maternal Deprivation In the 1930s a young psychiatrist noticed how many of the disturbed children he saw had been separated from their parents in early life. This was John Bowlby whose work had a massive influence on how psychologists […]
Aspects of Sleep
Sleep: Four short films that examine different aspects of the psychology of sleep: 1.Why Do We Sleep? We’ll spend about a third of our lives asleep. But why? Why do we need to sleep? Filmed at a University Sleep Laboratory, this short film demonstrates the effect of lack of sleep and why it is so […]
Maths in Psychology: Student Pack
In these 6 short films, UK psychology teacher and examiner Deb Gajic walks students through a range of classic psychological tests, showing them step-by-step how to calculate and apply: 1. Spearman’s Rho: If your students are having trouble understanding Spearman’s Rho – or you simply want to give them a concise step-by-step walk-through – this […]
Wilcoxen Signed Rank Test
How to Calculate: Experienced Psychology teacher Deb Gajic shows students how to calculate and apply the Wilcoxen Signed Ranks Test to a contemporary psychological hypothesis: “Participants will score lower on a reaction test after consuming alcohol“
Probability Tests
How to Calculate: In this short film Deb Gajic looks at probability – and how it can be applied in Psychology – through the concepts of: statistical significance Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
Mann-Whitney Test
How to Calculate: In this filmed walk-through, UK Psychology teacher and examiner Deb Gajic shows you how to calculate and apply the Mann Whitney U Test using a contemporary psychological hypothesis: will males score higher on an aggression questionnaire than females?
Chi Square Test
How to Calculate: Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply Chi Square to a contemporary psychological context – Piaget’s Conservation Experiment – using the experimental hypothesis: “7 year olds will be more likely to be able to conserve than 5 year olds“
Sign Test
How to Calculate: In this short film Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply the Sign Test to a contemporary psychological problem / hypothesis: the shaping of attitudes towards the death penalty.
Spearman’s Rho
How To Calculate: If your students are having trouble understanding Spearman’s Rho – or you simply want to give them a concise step-by-step walk-through – this film is exactly what you need. In it, Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply Spearman’s Rho using a contemporary psychological problem / hypothesis: the correlation between self […]
The English-Romanian Adoptees Project
The ERA was the first study to follow a cohort of children who had suffered periods of institutional deprivation through into adult life. To their surprise, researchers found that problems experienced by many of the Romanian adoptees were neurodevelopmental, suggesting that deprivation had affected brain development. The film, with guidance from lead researcher Professor Edmund […]
A Science of Love?
Why do we fall in love? What makes us fall in love? And what happens to love? Poets, historians, philosophers, have been writing about these questions for centuries. But now scientists have joined in, exploring the brain in love. In this film, we follow a young couple falling in love, and talk to experts to […]
False Memories
Elizabeth Loftus’ pioneering research on “false memories” made a crucial contribution to the “recovered memory” debate and this film, featuring original interview footage of Loftus, covers: The George Franklin trial. The “Lost in the Mall” technique, its critical reception and further research. Jane Doe and the deconstruction of guided imagination.
Ghostsites: Wathistory
WatHistory is a YouTube site I’ve been meaning to write about but, for whatever reason, never got around to doing so until now. I guess I was inspired by the sociology ghostsites theme because this site seems to have something of a chequered history. Although the Twitter account ceased trading in 2018 and the .com website may never […]